‘Put Socialism on Trial,’ Larry Kudlow Urges

"I want it debated. I want it rebutted. I want to convict socialism.” Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, says Thursday during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

“I want you, and everybody in this room and your friends and your neighbors, I want you to put socialism on trial, that’s what I’m asking,” Kudlow said, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside Washington.

“I don’t want us to stand idly by,” he told the CPAC audience. “I don’t want to let this stuff fester. I want it challenged. I want it debated. I want it rebutted. I want to convict socialism.”

The top economic adviser to President Donald Trump noted the emergence of support for socialism among young voters and among Democrats in Congress.

He singled out the so-called Green New Deal, a proposal backed by congressional Democrats in the form of a resolution sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.

The Democrats’ plan would move the country away from fossil fuels while implementing a raft of liberal initiatives.

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